Perhaps such a modern favorite as the comic book needs no introduction. But we will still remind our readers that a comic book is any picture that tells us a story. Without going into the history of the origin of this phenomenon, let’s go straight to the essence of the article: into what subspecies exciting pictures are divided and how to distinguish between them.
As you may have already guessed, the story that the image conveys to us can be of absolutely any genre: it is science fiction, crime or romance that we know, and many others that testify to the content of comics. In this article we will look not at what comics tell us, but how they do it. In other words, the conversation will be about form. Let’s go!
TRADITIONAL COMICS.
Traditional, or as they are called, Americanized” comics have a fairly trite plot about superheroes and their enemies, the villains. This kind of comics is sales-oriented, so they are quite popular, and at least once in our lives we have definitely seen them. Glossy, colorful, worn to holes plot – the characteristics of traditional comics.
GRAPHIC NOVELS
Similar to traditional, but different in depth of subject matter, graphic novels are also a fairly common type of comic book. This format is a voluminous work that is not published intermittently, but once. Do all of us remember the classic novels everyone read in school? The graphic novel is no less serious work, only in it the text plays an auxiliary role and the author’s message is conveyed to us through the image.
STRIPS
This type of comic strip has gained not a little popularity these days. Stripes or “miniatures” are a comic strip of two or four pictures, which are accompanied by a text to convey the idea of the creator. Most often we can find strips on the Internet or in magazines, but there are also entire collections of drawn miniatures.
WEB COMBINS
We are all active users of the World Wide Web, due to which web comics are also becoming popular. They can be published both on paid and free internet resources, in the second case it can be the artist’s personal website. Web comics are created exclusively on the computer in “online” mode, they differ in absolutely arbitrary format, animation or sound accompaniment, as well as different themes. However, webcomics creators should keep in mind that in order to interest readers, their work must be understandable to most and have its own “zest”
MANGA
Where else but in Japan are comics considered a separate form of visual art? Manga is a format of Japanese comics that developed into a major branch of book publishing in Japan in the middle of the last century. The hallmark of manga is black and white, although nowadays bright colors are sometimes favored to create Japanese comics, and the reading of comics from right to left.